Understanding Psychology

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Students First.Bob Feldman'sUnderstanding Psychologyguides students through Introductory Psychology concepts in an accessible manner, bringing comprehension of difficult material into the grasp of all students because when students understand psychology, they learn psychology. The thoroughly revised Ninth Edition integrates a variety of elements that foster students' understanding of psychology and its impact on their everyday lives, including a new Neuroscience In Your Life feature, alerts to key topics, and study skills for specific concepts. This text also provides instructors with a fully integrated supplements package to objectively gauge their students' mastery of psychology's key principles and concepts and to create dynamic lectures.

Introduction to Psychology

Psychologists at Work

A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Psychology’s Key Issues and Controversies

Psychological Research

The Scientific Method

Conducting Psychological Research

Critical Research Issues

Neuroscience and Behavior

Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior

The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body

The Brain

Sensation and Perception

Sensing the World Around Us

Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye

Hearing and the Other Senses

Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World

States of Consciousness

Sleep and Dreams

Hypnosis and Meditation

Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness

Learning

Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

Cognitive Approaches to Learning

Memory

The Foundations of Memory

Recalling Long-Term Memories

Forgetting: When Memory Fails

Cognition and Language

Thinking and Reasoning

Problem Solving

Language

Intelligence

What Is Intelligence?

Variations in Intellectual Ability

Group Differences in Intelligence: Genetic and Environmental Determinants